[Lyric] Make Do (David St. Romain)

Earlene was a beauty queen
Down in Abilene
Back in the sixties
She headed out west to East LA
Graduation day to be in the movies
Got a few big parts and some broken hearts
She was a stand in double for some really big stars
But somehow, she never landed her big break

So now she's slingin' burgers at the Dew Drop Inn
She's got a couple good friends and a dog named Dixie
Her hair's gone grey and she's gеttin' old
And there's no good roles for a girl in thеir fifties
She's mastered the art of compromise
She's learned to improvise and just go with the flow
'Cause she knows things ain't always gonna go her way
So she says

Everybody's gotta do the best they can
Everybody's gotta use their own two hands
To try to make somethin' outta somethin' else
Make life a little better
Nobody ever gets a free lunch
Everybody's got some but not enough
Whatever life drags us through
It's about we all make do
Kenny Earl left the paper mill
And got a record deal
On the big time label
They all said it couldn't fail
The check's in the mail
We're gonna make you famous
Six months later he'd 'ready come and gone
That big hit song just never quite happened
So now he's workin' at a little bitty bar down town
Smilin' and singin'

Everybody's gotta do the best they can
Everybody's gotta use their own two hands
To try to make somethin' outta somethin' else
Make life a little better
Nobody ever gets a free lunch
Everybody's got some but not enough
Whatever life drags us through
It's about we all make do
Somehow we all make do

Well the suns sinking down on the world tonight
There's billions of people
And billions of lives
Things go wrong and things go right
And everybody's gotta do the best they can
Everybody's gotta use their own two hands
To try to make somethin' outta somethin' else
Make life a little better
Nobody ever gets a free lunch
Everybody's got some but not enough
Whatever life drags us through
It's about we all make do
Somehow we all make do
(Hey-ay)
(Hey-yeah)
(Ooh, somehow we all make do)